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Here's the problem. There are 20 cases and 3 deaths in my county as of yesterday, and 14 of them are in the two local nursing homes. An outside heath care worker who routinely works between the two facilities tested positive and managed to infect many people in the facilities. The staff in the two facilities has been crying out for more PPE and tests, but the management won't test until you show symptoms. Obviously, then it's too late. Otherwise, they want the employees to pay for their own tests! It's all about money! Until we fix this, it's not safe to go back to business as usual.
1 posted on 04/15/2020 3:31:19 AM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: eastexsteve

What? It seems we need to protect those at risk and everyone else go back to life as usual!!!!


2 posted on 04/15/2020 3:34:37 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Had a chat with my daughter about this. She is an ICU nurse.

She says that she believes that her hospital actually has sufficient supplies of PPE and can get more through state authorities as Pence has said. She blames the problem on nitwit hospital administrators who continue to manage to the bottom line and their quarterly bonus, even in the middle of a pandemic.

The test problem is simply the fact that we can’t crank them out fast enough. Another reason why the idea that we’re going to test 350 million people is a pipedream.


3 posted on 04/15/2020 3:41:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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Two things.

Immediately put these people who are infected or who could be infected by virtue of close proximity on HCQ+Zinc.

If after doing this monitor closely and take additional steps as needed, which based on the high number of very successful treatment of this virus using the “Trump Drugs” will be limited at most.


5 posted on 04/15/2020 4:26:32 AM PDT by billyboy15
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Residents in Nursing homes are not going to make it through this.


9 posted on 04/15/2020 4:54:05 AM PDT by sickoflibs (California lockdown/Stay at home : 'Stay in your tents')
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We will have enough testing equipment very soon. But the real key to reopening the economy is the Trump Cure and three other cures that I know of. The H in the Trump cure is also a preventative that can be used on the High and Medium risk groups of folks. By the way: the Trump Cure may work on the flu as well.


19 posted on 04/15/2020 5:54:50 AM PDT by Revolutionary ("Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!")
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COVID19 Testing: Until this is fixed, nobody is safe

What a load of nonsense.
AIDS has been out for 40 years, how many people in the US are tested every year for AIDS?
Do they have a vaccine for AIDS despite tens of billions of dollars spent on it? Nope.
Have people stopped having unprotected sex because of AIDS? Nope.

21 posted on 04/15/2020 6:01:25 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Trump’s task force has said they are going to institute stringent testing for nursing homes. More regulations are also required in that current environment. But that has nothing to do with the majority of our economy opening up again. If anything these facilities should aid a reopening, because they cut down on the multigenerational households that so hurt Italy. But you are right, they need better controls.


26 posted on 04/15/2020 6:30:16 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Is everyone tested every year for anti-bodies to the raft of flu viruses, which kill millions every year?

And Covid-19 should be different, because???

How much is the “flu vaccine” protecting us and how much is the built up herd immunity to the flug bugs protecting us? Do they over sell the “flu vaccine” and under appreaciate the built up herd immunity to the seasonal flu bugs?

On a personal note, I have never ever had the flu vaccine and never ever had a serious flu illness.


27 posted on 04/15/2020 7:25:20 AM PDT by Wuli
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While you wrote this post 3 people died of other causes. Stop your hyperventilating.


28 posted on 04/15/2020 7:30:47 AM PDT by TruthFactor (Hang em', Hang em' High.)
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